@walt.farrell I own both applications. I’m thinking that it may be far easier to do this when the Photo and Designer personas are available. It still won’t be as easy as it should be though.
I do wonder if I will end up with multiple colour versions of the same file though. Saving as a greyscake JPEG and colouring within InDesign stops such a scenario.

@Wosven I saw that before posting but you have to use Photo to do it. I want to know how to do this solely in Publisher - just like you can in InDesign.
I have tried to use that method and can't get it to work for me. It seems a very long-winded way of doing something which is so easily done in InDesign.

How do I add colour to a greyscale JPEG in Publisher? In InDesign, you can do it really easily by using the Direct Selection Tool and then choosing a colour. I cannot see any way of doing the same thing within Publisher. For the screenshot, the red set of ornaments were coloured in Illustrator so you could see what I want to do.

I have images set to be linked rather than embedded but when images have been placed, I am seeing 'embedded' in the Layers panel but 'linked' in Resource Manager. This doesn't happen all the time though.
Has anyone else seen this? Is this a known bug?

The new square icons will be coming to Photo and Designer. I posted on Twitter about the Publisher icon and got sent this by someone who is using the Beta versions of all applications.
The icons look better when you see all three but I still prefer the triangular ones.
As for the splash screen, it's just very plain and boring, especially compared to Photo and Designer.